Larry Winiwini yirdaki #1

[MRRandomification]

is he Yolŋu?

[ididjaustralia]

@MRRandomification yes

[littlejonny101]

sweet didj mate beautiful setting, gotta love our beaches

[Cre8iveSignWorks]

what the hell is going on here?

everyone arguing about black and white or ancient man and civilisations?

4 fuk sake you guys...get back on track here....

this page is about a very very good didgeridoo player.

how about some comment on that for a change?

[sonofthedestroyer]

I think perhaps Elijah Muhammad was one of the few people to properly write down who the white man is and where he came from. Word for word i may not agree with him, but the oral knowledge i got handed from my dravidian ancestry is similar to what the american taught. The common factor is that the white man is a product of a genetic experiment who ran into the wilderness of Europe before he slowly learnt and came out to take control of the world. But he will be removed also by forces of nature

[Porjdawg]

dam your black

[bex2b]

@Porjdawg ...and beautiful Winiwini is the man!!

[lunauruguay]

Qué sonido tan especial.....es una melodía hermosa la que logra!!

[eelkerients]

@moyle94

Like your name, you must be 94 years old, and you dont know how things work in this world annymore.

Plz leaf your stupid coments, and go die in piece.....

Greetz.

[bex2b]

@eelkerients - damn thats harsh! Instead how about we 'close the gap' and educate these individuals, comments like that only increase the percieved misconceptions thay already have about indigenous people. Set the matter straight by first leading the way..the rest will follow!!

[technineisajuggalow]

when they gona invent the electric didgeidoo

[Yannick20]

@santaslittlehelpa Yes, you're right, but now they also cut healthy trees for the didgeridoo production (not smallscalers like winiwini, but large production firms), eucalyptus is indeed considered a weed when it grows outside australia, but in some places there are now fewer eucalyptus trees inside australia. The tradition is thousands of years old, but until 30 or 40 years ago only a few aboriginal people played didgeridoo, and now hundreds of thousands of people in the west want one...

[bex2b]

@Yannick20 look back even futher into the indigenous culture and you'll learn that the people took care of the land, they only took what theyneeded..everywhere around the world man is using natural resources a lot faster than replacing them. If the indigenous people want to take their identity back and revive their skills and way of life, who are we to judge or even stop them? Lets 'close the gap' and embrace Australia's treasure, the oldest culture in the world, the Indigenous people!

[Yannick20]

@bex2b The ancestors of the present day aboriginals whiped out dozens of species like giant cangaroos, giant lizards,... when they first came to Australia. The first Native Americans whiped out every large land mammal there was in both Americas (bison came from Eurasia afterwards). My ancestors whiped out the neanderthal, mammoth, wild horse,etc. People eventually learnt how to live without interfering too much, but it only came after they destroyed many beautiful things.

[startug]

@Yannick20 Neaderthal's aren't real though.

[sonofthedestroyer]

@Yannick20,

You are parroting the lies that eurocentric scholars teach as 'history'.

First of all, modern white europeans are actually Neandertaals. The so called 'cro magnon' man was black african. Neandertals came into existance through genetic experiments carried out by the ancient civilisations.

The white man unfortunately is not going to survive the karmic destruction in order to learn how to live with the environment. If you dont believe me watch how it unfolds as the years go by

[Yannick20]

@sonofthedestroyer White Europeans are not neanderthals. Neanderthals have a completely different skeletal structure, while white europeans have the same skeleton as other people. There is absolutely not a single trace of any civilisation that existed before neanderthals came into being... Where do you actually GET this crap? (by the way, why have european people always ruled the world, if they are so inferior?)

[sonofthedestroyer]

@Yannick20 ,

You are still stuck in the eurocentric mindset. Once stuck in that, you cant come out.

The white man is a recent appearance on earth. Not more than several thousand years. When he first appeared on the outskirts of ancient Egypt he was chased out. Our history always says the white man was a beast that often tried to infiltrate civilisations. Until some of our people decided to teach them culture and knowledge, something the white man used against the hands that fed him.

[Yannick20]

@sonofthedestroyer it's probably useless to enter a discussion, but i'll try anyway... What you're saying is actually racist, what if I would say that the black man is actually a beast because they are often very superstitious, run around naked in the jungle , fight each other constantly, and sometimes even eat each other???

[Escekar]

@sonofthedestroyer

Nice comeback....!

:-)

[Escekar]

@sonofthedestroyer

Even though you're from a different culture than me.

I would have almost said the same thing as you did...?

that's cool..

[sonofthedestroyer]

@Escekar,

Many of us with melanin are separated by many cultures. But there is an ever growing synchronity. That is no accident.

[moyle94]

thats not how you play a regi didg

[ididjaustralia]

@moyle94 how is it played then??

[bex2b]

@moyle94 oh and how do you know? Larry is a master..check out his background, his history and his people..

[Butterscotch0193]

@moyle94

there are many different ways to play. there is no RIGHT way, nor is there a WRONG way, so you can shut up. :)

[mikehattan]

You critics from the 21st Century with all your iPods, Cellphones, Laptops, etc need to take a moment and put yourselves back some thousands of years and you would know what this sound represents...Oh, sorry, you can't....Losers!

[BiliosoII]

@mikehattan

Our ears may have been stung by the electronic sounds all too common today, but that is no excuse nor reason to criticize for which you also have done.

[alexmoretti64]

RESPEKT...

[tyler82889]

what kind of paint do they use to decorate the didges and does it alter the sound if you do?

[arequipa1]

i'm sure it doesn't alter the sound--it's just a long hollow tube

[sonofthedestroyer]

Just a long hollow tube?

Take a look inside a proper yirdaki with a torch and tell me its just a hollow

[arequipa1]

the one i have is just a hollow tube

[crossbj]

They use Clay Colours to paint and it makes no change to the sound

[kinesismd]

wow...so maybe someone can help me out...cuz i hear beat boxin wen i listn to this...is it possible thats where the first beatboxers got there sound was from this? I really wud like to know

[rookybeats]

Beatboxing has influences from everywhere. It's ALOT older than people think!

[ydobrevodnim]

Lots of people use didgeridoo in combination with didgeridoo, sounds really cool.

[toobshmoob]

Was the sound recorded with a directional mike pointed towards the person instead of the didge? It sounds much better when the camera points down to the end of the instrument.

[tommochills34]

omg i want to b able to play a didgeridoo!!!!!!!

[sonofthedestroyer]

Larry appears to make Yirdaki which have characteristics of Djalu and Burrngupurrngu. I can make out that sharp flexible noise that Burrnguprrngu instruments you advertise. It also has a Djalu type of sound aswell.

[nowhere8]

very very nice indeed

[ididjaustralia]

cool eh?

[Yannick20]

Indeed ; this is great playing. But With the increasing popularity of didgeridoo in the west, more and more eucaliptus is being cut to make them; and I think laws have to be made to prevent the wild eucaliptus (and koala) from being whiped out just to make didgeridoos for the West...

[96JUSTIN]

fuggem

The doo is more important!

[battleatbosworth]

thats like the dumbest thing ive ever heard in my life.

ya your right the "doo" is more important than having trees to make them out of.

[ydobrevodnim]

Actually they cut down trees that have been hollowed out by termites or other insects. In other words, they're pretty much already dead.

[battleatbosworth]

your right.

however that still doesn't make his comment any less retarded. that actually makes it more retarded, if anything.

[saldali69]

this man rocks...

[ididjaustralia]

Winiwini rocks ok! He is a special person in a few ways, not only because of his amazing skill at playing yirdaki. It is a shame that there isn't more for Winiwini to do and to achieve. Opportunities are just so limited in Arnhem Land.

[saldali69]

That's for sure, sadly this is also true for billions of people in the world.

In any case his same skills in playing yidaki could bring him all around the world...

[acidfriend47]

@ididjaustralia Hey do you know how to play that kind of style on the didje? I've finding out its hard to do that rythm xD

Amazing isn't it